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He can't do no harm so long as I'm here." Little Ann went to the door and opened it. She spoke quietly. "Do you want to come in here, Mr. Strangeways?" The man came in. He was clean, but still unshaven, and his clothes looked as though he had been lying down. He looked round the room anxiously. "Where has he gone?" he demanded in an overstrung voice. "Where is he?"
The horror of her soul was written upon her face. Remorse, repentance, fear for the atonement these had their way with her who was lately known as Alice Ellison, woman of fortune, and now served ill by fortune's hand. All at once she broke from her half-stupor, her overstrung nerves giving way. A cry of terror burst from her lips. "You!" she cried, "you will not love me, you will not save me!
She walked with hung head like one ashamed, the overstrung religious sense deepening her discomfiture at every step. How rich her life had always been in the conviction of usefulness nay, indispensableness! Her mother's persuasions had dashed it from her.
He observed that Feather fluttered though she had lightly moved to a table as if to rearrange a flower in a group. "Put a stop to letting Mr. Delamore go over his scene here?" "Put a stop to Mr. Delamore, if you please." It was at this moment more than ever true that her light being was overstrung and that her light head whirled too fast.
It was a strange, disconcerting sound, that laughter, and the nearest Dinoceras, disturbed by it, edged away and crowded against his neighbor's flank in an inexplicable apprehension. The next moment the stupendous opposing forces met with a shock that, to the man's overstrung senses, seemed to make the very daylight reel. There was no space for evasion or manoeuver.
I do not pose as the obstinate advocate of parallel stringing, although I believe that, so far, it is the most logical and the best; the best, because the left hand division of the instrument is free from a preponderance of dissonant high partials, and we hear the light and shade, as well as the cantabile of that part, better than by any overstrung scale that I have yet met with.
This additional shock to Zoie's overstrung nerves forced a wild scream from her lips, and an answering exclamation from the nerve-racked Jimmy made her sit bolt upright. She gazed at him in astonishment. His tie was awry, one end of his collar had taken leave of its anchorage beneath his stout chin, and was now just tickling the edge of his red, perspiring brow.
There is hardly a bone in my body that does not ache, or a nerve that does not seem overstrung. "But I shall rally and be myself again; indeed, I must, for things of vast importance have to be attended to before the day is out. Our exchequer is empty, and I have to prepare for my autumn Campaign in Holland, Germany, Italy, etc."
'There! there! he would mutter, 'don't you see him? look at his square-toed boots and brass buckles. See how his ghastly dead eyes glare! Keep him from me, Jason; keep him from me; he shall not have them back; he has been dead hundreds of years; keep him from me they are mine! And in my overstrung, nervous state I could have sworn on one or two occasions that I too saw such a figure.
"There is nowhere to land," said the girl. She was shuddering as a dog shudders when overstrung. "Ay, it's a brute beast of a place," said Bompard, "well, we must nose along on the lookout. There's no coast but hasn't some landing-place where a boat can push in. Y'see it's not like a ship. A boat can go where a ship can't."
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